ResearchCyc appears to be free <http://www.cyc.com/platform/researchcyc>now, but again it is also a subset of of the real Cyc (and OpenCyc is a subset of ResearchCyc).
I agree it would require a lot of work, but I cant imagine it not being useful for communicating with and testing an AGI. (The AGI itself would likely not have a lot of use for it either, but to communicate with us :) Cheers, Duncan On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > OpenCyc seems to have only fairly abstract concepts in it, not much that's > concrete > > I played with ResearchCyc a number of years ago, it had more concrete > stuff (but costs $$ to use).... > > But it seemed to me that connecting their ontology to anything outside > their ontology, would require a lot of work. Their NLP system connects > their ontology to natural language terms, but it's proprietary.... > > (This is setting aside the question of whether a human-built ontology is > useful for AGI -- to my mind it could in principle be useful in peripheral > ways, but can't play a central role...) > > -- ben > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Duncan Murray via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am looking to use OpenCyc, but am having trouble finding any recent >> examples / discussion on it anywhere. There are many requests on how to use >> it, but not a lot of examples or replies. >> >> Does anyone use it as an ontology, or do you have some examples on its >> use? I realise OpenCyc is a subset of the full ontology Cyc, but are there >> other ontologies I should be looking at in terms of generic concept mapping? >> >> Thanks, >> Duncan >> *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | Modify >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/25449614-a78bbfa7> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
